Easy Gingerbread Man Recipe for Kids

Chances are that the first biscuits you will have made at home or school were gingerbread men – and were eaten limb by limb until all that remained was a smiling gingerbread face! This is a great recipe, as they take no time at all to prepare and cook, and are low in sugar.

What you need for gingerbread:

350g plain flour

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

100g softened butter

2 tsp ground ginger

175g soft light brown sugar

1 egg

4 tbsp golden syrup

Currants or icing tubes to decorate

Gingerbread recipe:

Grease a large baking tray and pre heat the oven to 190c /gas mark 5

Pop the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger in a mixing bowl and rub in the butter

Add the sugar and syrup and stir in the egg until it makes a firm dough

Roll out your dough to ½ cm and cut out your gingerbread men with a cutter – or freehand if you like!

Place your men on the tray, leaving space between them to spread while cooking

Bake for 15 minutes until golden brown

Leave to cool on a wire rack before decorating with currants or piped icing

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